单词 | expense account |
释义 | > as lemmasexpense account expense account n. an account of expenses or expenditure; spec. an account of the expenses incurred by an employee in the course of his work and payable by his employer(s); also, the money so paid; frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > expense account expense account1872 expense sheet1942 1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 284 The item of roads is a big one in the expense account. 1922 S. Lewis Babbitt x. 141 It went down on my expense-account—gosh, if I'd been paying it instead of the firm, I'd 'a' tramped the streets all night. 1933 J. B. Priestley Wonder Hero iii. 68 What about a quick drink and then some lunch?..It'll all go down on my expense account to the paper. 1937 W. S. Maugham Theatre ix. 75 When he directed a play he put down on the expense account the fee that a director of the second rank would have received. 1953 ‘S. Ransome’ Drag Dark (1954) xi. 119 They went off together…To lunch. Nice, expense-account place. 1959 Good Food Guide 87 Offering a good, soigné, ‘expense-account’ type menu. 1959 Good Food Guide 222 Designed in menu and price for business executives with expense accounts. 1959 Good Food Guide 387 The eaters were given precisely the same attentive service as the expense-account-wallahs. 1970 New Yorker 15 Aug. 66/2 Pills for expense-account indigestion. < as lemmas |
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